FEAR AND TREMBLING

Screening room

Status: Completed

Director(s): Alain Corneau

Long synopsis : ''As a child, I wanted to be God, then Jesus, then, conscious of my excessive ambition, I agreed to become a martyr... As an adult I resolved to be less of a megalomaniac and to work as a translator in a Japanese company. Sadly, I became an accountant... now there was no stopping the lightning speed of my downfall...''
A blackly humorous adaptation of Amélie Nothomb’s best-selling novel, and featuring extraordinary performances from Sylvie Testud and Kaori Tsuji, Alain Corneau’s sophisticated comedy tells the story of Amélie, a dreamy and romantic young French woman who returns to Japan - country of her birth - only to find herself overwhelmed by the mysterious and absurd machinations of the Japanese business world.
Confounded by layer upon impenetrable layer of protocol, bewildered and frustrated by a closed and contemptuous system which ensures her steady and humiliating decline from translator to toilet attendant, caught up in a dangerous, seemingly unwinnable battle of wills with her beautiful and inscrutable superior Miss Mori, Amélie is tested to the limits of sanity before stumbling upon her own extraordinary means of liberation.